10 Things To Do after Creating a Website

Most People do create blogs and websites using WordPress, but they usually forgot themost important things which they have to do after installing WordPress.

WordPress is a very well known CMS and it has many Plugins and themes which may be premium or not, but mostly plugins are free. After Installation of WordPress you must have to do the Following things:

1. Delete The Default WordPress Posts:

After installation of the WordPress CMS, you always find some default posts and plugins which are installed already to guide the users. There are 1 posts, 1 page and 1 comment, which have been already made by WordPress to Guide there users, after the new installation.

You have to do is:

• Go to the post menu from the left menu and delete that post.
• Go to the pages menu and delete the Sample page.
• Go to the comments and delete the Sample comment.

2. Change Your Admin Password:

Sometimes WordPress promotes it’s default password, which is ‘pass’ or ‘admin’. So you have to change your admin password and Admin name, which will help you to secure your WordPress website.

3. Edit permalinks:

Permalinks are the links which are given to your posts and pages, and this helps alot in SEO, so this is very important to change your permalink. Permalinks which are default are very unfriendly with the search engines. To do that you have to do is:

• Go to the Settings>permalinks.
• Under the ‘common section’ choose ‘custom structure’.
• Enter %postname% in the bar. if you want some other then you may select by your own.

4. Upload your custom theme:

Default WordPress theme doesn’t gives a professional look to your blog, so you must have to change the default WordPress theme by any of your custom theme.

Now, How to upload and install custom theme?

• Download a theme or design your own
• Unzip and upload it to wp-content > themes
• Activate it via Appearance > Themes (then just click on your theme)

5. Add your categories and change the default:

When you install WordPress the default category is ‘Uncategorized’ and this just looks ugly. Assume at some point you’re going to post an article and forget to select a category – what would you want that post to come under by default? I tend to use News or something general like that.

1. Go to Posts > Categories
2. Click on ‘Uncategorized’ to edit it – change it to ‘News‘ or similar
3. Add your other blog categories

6. Activate Akismet:

Akismet is an Default WordPress plugin, which you should activate if you want your website spam free. Akismet blocks spam comments.

How to Activate Akisment?

1. Go to the Plugins page in the admin area and activate Akismet
2. To complete Akismet activation, WordPress requires an API key. You can get this by registering on WordPress.com then viewing your profile.
3. Now go to Plugins > Akismet Configuration, and paste in your key.

7. Install Google XML sitemaps :

Google XML Sitemaps is very good sitemap plugin, which helps alot in creating sitemaps for your website and submitting it to search engines. you might be thinking what does it do, Actually it automatically posts your sitemaps to the Google webmaster, which help in indexing your website to the Google search engine.

Please Check out Best SEO plugins.

Here’s how it will works:

Go to Google Webmaster Central and log in with your Google Account. On the first page, there will be a link to “Verify” your site. Follow the instructions there.

Once that’s done, you can then click the “Add Sitemap” link from the first page and put in the URL to your sitemap, which will be http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml

8. Install any backup Tool for your Website:

Installing Backup tool prevent from any data loss, even your website was hacked. Mostly people recommend WordPress Database backup, which is a good backup tool and it backup all your database and put is in the safe place or will e-mail you.

Click here for WordPress Database Backup plugin,

9. Add your Feeds to Feedburner:

First edit your RSS settings. Settings > Reading and you can edit how many posts you want to show in your RSS feed and whether they should show the full post or not.

Now you want to burn your feed with Feedburner. Feedburner will provide you with stats on your feeds and automatically ping services so your new content is updated immediately along with a whole host of other services.

Once you have signed up to Feedburner, change your feed subscription link in your theme. Place the following code between the head tags.

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Feed Title" href="YOUR FEEDBURNER URL" />

10. Add and Activate Analytic:

Analytic play an important role in create a website or blog, because it tells about the visitors of your website and Helps alot with the SEO. I recommend Google Analytics. Other good analytic services available include Mint and StatCounter